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Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection

The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection (JFABC) digital library is an online guide and finding aid for the rich collection of artists’ publications available in Flaxman Library Special Collections. The JFABC brings together close to ten thousand artists’ publications in all formats and media including: books, zines, multiples, video and audio recordings, digital works, periodicals, and other intimate works of art created by artists of local, national, and international significance. Focusing on materials published from the 1960s to the present, it is complemented by collections of reference works and exhibition catalogues to support in-depth research on artists’ publishing.

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A collection of found and altered images, with text, by Shana Moulton.: "For this book I was thinking about Prevention magazine and things I wanted to put on paper if I were to die soon. Which is... Read more

"Volume Eleven (flaw in the algorithm of cosmopolitanism) was commissioned for South as a State of Mind #6 (documenta 14 journal #1), edited by Quinn Latimer and documenta 14 artistic director Ad... Read more

Consists of photographs of models of embankments, with captions giving the street locations of the embankments.; Self-wrapper; issued in a pictorial sleeve.; "Embankments were modeled at 1/700th... Read more

A companion volume to "Cars, Tulsa, OK." Consists of photographs of clay models of the public containers located in the 2 x 1 block area of Tulsa where the cars were photographed. Captions i... Read more

Consists of photographs of cars and of wooden models of them, with captions giving the make of the car. Folded sheet, which is laid in, shows the street layout, with the wooden models in position of t... Read more

"Part memoir, part treatise, part collage and experiment, Krista Franklin’s Under the Knife is an excavation; a dig at the sites of the construction and demolition of the poet/artist’s selves.... Read more

To create an active portrait of Lake Michigan, the artist created cyanotype prints at ten Chicago beaches. Butler coated six inch square sheets of paper with a UV-sensitive solution, exposing them in... Read more

Two books based on Amnesty International reports on civilian atrocities carried out in Saydnaya Prison in Damascus, Syria. Book 1: "Red Building, White Building, Execution Door" are images d... Read more